Today, I found a file box that I have assumed was 2012 keepable papers (ie Tax stuff, not necessarily needed every day but something to keep)…. wrong!
What I found was a carefully packed box from May 2013. Remember brain clot Apil 2013: http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2013/04/08/its-not-a-head-achy/]
It has in it Christmas card 2012 redo’s (ie, your card came back to me or I received yours later) and a list of weddings, babies, graduations to acknowledge. Clearly I had already begun these. I feel terrible that many of these important events were seemingly overlooked! I will endeavor to fix that!
Then, there are a lot of “get well” cards and gifts from April 2013. I have NO MEMORY of any of these . 🙁
Obviously, I owe lots of people THANK YOU’s!
And also… Courtney’s graduation announcements. Mid-send out. And, I have talked about these but I didn’t realize they weren’t finished, I thought she just needed to do Thank You’s & went to China… and still needs to do those.
What I found was a carefully packed box that shows how our lives abruptly halted in early April 2013… began again slowly and came to a screeching halt in late April 2013 [http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2014/04/08/a-year-ago-and-surgery-2/]… and was packed away because there were more important things… than all this… this box of important things.
I sit here and I’m stunned and I look through these things with NO MEMORY of receiving the gifts/cards. And it’s all back… how much all this could have turned out SO DIFFERENTLY.
I found a box full of emotion.